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Simply divine.

Yes, you can simply divine the meaning of the Oblique Strategy cards by
taking a look at the most comprehensive guide that we know of, at Gregory
Taylor's wonderful dedicated
Oblique
Strategies site. Gregory has the complete text of editions 1-4 of the
cards, scans, descriptions, history and commentary.

In a chat with garageband.com in September 02000, Brian said: "I
still like Oblique Strategies, and I still keep adding to them. And I am planning
soon to publish the fifth version of them." It came to pass that a mere 15 months
later the Fifth Edition of the Oblique Strategies was unleashed upon an expectant
world and made available for purchase direct from Opal at Enoshop,
and also Rough Trade
and Britart.com.
EnoWeb has more information on this
dedicated page.

Editions 1-4 of the Oblique Strategies decks frequently appear at
auction at places such as eBay. Prices are generally ridiculous (for buyers)
and strangely pleasing (for sellers), at least $200 and sometimes as high as
$1500+ at time of writing, which is 10 o'clock. I mean 1st December 02001.

Here at EnoWeb we are pleased to bring you David Ray's on-line
javascript-based Oblique Strategies
chooser.

oblique strategies on the web

Now you see them, now you don't. People put up interactive Web pages
that display randomly-drawn Oblique Strategy texts. We put links to their sites
on our nice EnoWeb. Then they mysteriously disappear. Of the trillions that we
once linked to, only two now remain.

Bryan Lewellen has a jolly fetching
Shockwave version of the cards hereWallace's page
has a
Javascript version.There were descriptions and photographs
of Peter Norton's 4th Edition at Neutreno but that's offline at the momentDima Kanashenko
found a site
that turns Oblique Strategies into random haikusPinche has a
Flash version of
Edition 4Jenny Thomas has a
Flash 5
versionMatthew Davidson has a
PDF
version for printing onto card stock

text versions of the cards

Oh look, Malcolm's left me a note scrawled on a piece of card ripped
from a pizza box: "Not sure what the differences in these are: two of them
appear to be identical. These files reside in the
Eno Nerve-Net
list ftp archives". Thanks.

wap versions of the cards

OVOS' Oblique Strategies WAPsite allows anyone with a WAP-enabled device
(e.g. mobile phone, PDA) to have access to an Oblique Strategies deck wherever
they are in the world. There are many features including a User Guide, an
interview with Eno about the Strategies - and a new random card can be 'drawn'
with just a double-click. There are currently 134 cards in the 'virtual deck'
on our WAPsite, an amalgamation of the 3 different editions that appeared in
the 70's. OVOS' Oblique Strategies WAPsite can be viewed using any WAP-enabled
device at wappy.to/ovos.